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Originally Posted by Halcyon Dayz
Yeah, sure...
Using the word Aether might not have been the smart thing to do then.
Nowadays it just pushes the must-be-woo button with most physicists.
And for good reason.
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Halcyon Dayz. One must remember that Asimov discussed the four correct physical interpretations of the negative result of the Michelson-Morley experiment in the late 70"s in his book, titled I believe''On Physics"...a blue Hardcover. Only one of the four interpretations was that there is no "ether". The others were to the effect that it was there but was of such a nature that a M-M experiment would not show it for various principle reasons.
So if people jump to "woo" they need to read a bit. To date I've found one typo in all his works. pete.